[mythtv] mythRadio Idea

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/13/2004 08:06 PM, Glen Tregoning wrote:

>One of the issues that people seem to be having with the tv/fm tuner
>card radio modules is that they run independently of mythtv.  For
>example that if mythtv wants to record a program using  the tv/fm card
>while someone is listening to the radio it won't be handled nicely.
>  
>
You should (in other words, I haven't tried it myself) be able to 
prevent this problem by using a MythTV menu item defined with the 
"EXECTV" action to tell Myth you're using the TV tuner.  See tvmenu.xml 
for an example.

Note, also, that if you're using a tuner (i.e. the RF-modulated (coax) 
input) on a PVR-x50 (and, possibly other cards), simply hooking an FM 
antenna to the FM connector will increase the amount of interference 
(and, therefore, noise) on your TV signal.  Normally, antenna signals 
are passed through filters to remove the unwanted frequencies before 
passing them to an FM or TV tuner; unfortunately, though, since the 
PVR-x50 uses the same tuner for TV and FM, both signal types are input 
to the same device.  Therefore, once you've hooked up the FM, make sure 
you test your video quality before corrupting too many important recordings.

HTH.

Mike